BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

 

Author(s) Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques
Title « Parquets ou mosaïques »
Imprint  
Localisation Paris, Binha, 4° Res 84 (2)
Subject Ornaments
Transcribed version of the text

French

     In this series of twenty-six plates, Heinrich von Geymüller perceived patterns for marquetry for floors or designs for marble inlaid flooring. One might also think of designs for garden flowerbeds, like those which appear at the end of the Quarto libro by Sebastiano Serlio. Unlike the plates belonging to the BnF (Estampes, Ed. 2 d) these are numbered.

Yves Pauwels (Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) – 2009

Critical bibliography

H. von Geymüller, Les Du Cerceau. Leur vie et leur œuvre d’après les nouvelles recherches, Paris/London, Rouam/Wood & Co, 1887, pp. 319-320.

A. Linzeler, Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du seizième siècle, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1932, 1, p. 60.